Pavement.



l UNITED STATES Patented May 30, 1905.'

FRANK E. CUDELL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

PAVEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,137, dated May 30, 1905.

Application filed October 24, 1904. Serial No. 229,770.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRANK E. CUDELL, acitizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pavements, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pavements; and it consists in the peculiar construction and preparation of the clay bottom for the laying of the pavement thereon. A

The object of this improvement is the prevention of the cracking of cemented brick and stone pavements by the heaving of the clay bottom by frost.

'Ihe ligure in the accompanying drawing is a perspective View ot' a road-bed prepared in accordance with my improvement.

A represents a bed of clay upon which a cement grouted pavement of brick or stone is to be laid.

B B and D D are grooves cut in the clay to be filled with a loose material, such as sand,

In a road-bed of the type described, the cornbination of a bed divided into blocks by a series of grooves, a loose material filling said grooves, a loose material covering said bed and lling, and a pavement supported on said bed and lilling, substantially as described.

Signed by me-'at Cleveland, Ohio, this 21st day of October, 1904.

FRANK E. CUDELL.

Witnesses: f GEO. W. TIBBITTS, E. A. TIBBITTs. 

